Teu nome é minha herança: a nomeação a partir da psicanálise lacaniana

Abstract

The dissertation approaches, from testimonial narratives, the proper name in relation with parents inheritance. We aim to investigate, not only the relation between proper name and paternal legacy, but also to extract the implications of bearing a proper name and what constitutes proper in a name. Although these issues are signatory of clinical practice, we use the testimonies of notorious Nazi descendants to develop the reflections on the subject by clearly offering the proper name as an important point in their narratives. We carried out a theoretical research in psychoanalysis on the proper name, in the midst of which we adopted as a methodological resource for reading the testimonies, the multiple case study applied to psychoanalysis. Such testimonies were presented from a clipping: the narratives about their proper names, more specifically, the surnames, in reference to personal history and great History. In order to understand the proper name in Lacanian psychoanalysis, we investigate the construction of its theorization, passing initially by the act of naming and the naming of things from which we extract consequences that reach the proper name. We collect from Logic, Philosophy and Linguistics the contributions of authors approached by Lacan, pointing out the approximations, distances and consequences in their own formulation. In this course both the symbolic effects of nomination and those that stand out from it were presented. Following the Lacanian paths that take the nomination from sin, we investigate the inherited sin and its consequences. Finally, the testimonies of the descendants of Nazi perpetrators provided us with the narrative of how a proper name and sin can be found in the history of a subject. Each one witnesses how it was possible to incarnate the portion that came to him through the name and what was done to make that name a little more proper.